Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Works For Me Wednesday

I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring with a great way to supplement your library rather cheaply.

As an English teacher, I'm always on the lookout for adolescent literature with which I can stock my (future) clasroom. A few years ago, my parents discovered that there is a Scholastic warehouse in the city closest to our home that has semi-annual inventory sales. Since that discovery, every year around Christmas (and around one of their sales) we take a trip into the city to visit the store and I get to pick out books for my classroom. My parents are great to take along because their interests vary from mine and I end up with a wide variety of books, many that I never would have looked at on my own. As a perk, my parents often set a pre-established spending limit and we consider this one of my Christmas gifts!

So, to sum up, a cheap and wonderful way to supplement your library [or your child(ren)'s library], is to look into book warehouses near where you live and whether they ever have inventory sales that are open to the public.

About Me

A 20-something about to be finished graduate student rambles on about life with a cat named KKM, a labrador she misses greatly, and the bloodhound she has yet to own, among other things.
Read on, please. I promise to talk about things other than animals. Occasionally.